Absurd orchestral comedy scoring that has no business being this good in a game about a hungover squirrel. Conker's Bad Fur Day on the N64 swings from cinematic grandeur to toilet humor and the music follows every beat. "Sloprano (The Great Mighty Poo Song)" is an actual operatic boss fight anthem sung by a giant piece of poo, "Rock Solid" thumps with club energy in a nightclub full of cavemen, and "It's War" drops into full Saving Private Ryan parody territory.
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The N64 cartridge is doing things it shouldn't. Real-time mixing, dynamic layers, voice samples that sound impossibly clean for the hardware. "Conker The King (Reprise)" at the end. Same throne, different squirrel. If you want proof that game soundtracks can be genuinely funny and still technically brilliant, start here.